Cairo, 23rd, June 2010
The launch of the Mediterranean TV channel project, the promising results of the cooperation between COPEAM and ASBU (Arab States Broadcasting Union): two main topics in the COPEAM Secretary General speech at the opening of the 43rd ordinary session of the Council of the Arab Information Ministers.
Many important topics related to the common Arab media action were handled in the debates of the 43rd ordinary session of the Council of the Arab Information Ministers organized in Cairo, on 23rd June 2010.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Mr. Amr Moussa, underlined the necessity of the opening-up to the rest of the world and the promotion of intercultural dialogue.
Ms. Alessandra Paradisi addressed, in this framework and upon kind invitation of the Arab League, a speech to the high personalities of this latter and to the Ministers of information. She emphasized the close ties between COPEAM and ASBU and the results of the fruitful cooperation between these two organisms.
Moreover, she affirmed the importance of the role of those who, from the two Mediterranean shores, act for peace, betting on the opening to diversity despite the obstacles hampering the development of cooperation.
Ms. Alessandra Paradisi therefore asserted that “welcoming the other does not mean determining the end of national history, but the beginning of Renaissance for the whole Region”.
She informed the attending Ministers about the launch of the Euro-Mediterranean TV channel project which distinguishes itself, according to Ms. Paradisi, by its crossed glance and the life style “made in Mediterranean” that it would export throughout the world as a possible answer to the
challenges of globalisation.
The President Khalid Nacir, Minister of communication and spokesman of the Moroccan government, thanked Ms. Paradisi and highlighted the Arab League support to COPEAM in its cooperation projects and in its initiatives aiming at bridging the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Read the speech of Alessandra Paradisi, COPEAM Secretary General